type Definition

type
noun

1. A class or group of people, animals or things which share similar characteristics; a kind or variety.

Thesaurus: kind, variety, sort, genus, class, genre, species.
2. The general character, nature or form of a particular class or group.
3. colloq
A person, especially of a specified kind.
Example: the silent type
Example: He's not really my type
4. A person, animal or thing that is a characteristic example of its group or class.

Thesaurus: model, representative, specimen, example, prototype.
5a. printing.
A small metal block with a raised letter or character on one surface that is used for printing;
5b. printing.
A set of such blocks;
5c. printing.
A set of such blocks that give printing of a specified kind.
Example: italic type
6. Printed letters, characters, words, etc.

Example: a leaflet with bold red type
7a. biol.
In taxonomy: the group whose essential characteristics serve to define the next highest grouping and which normally gives the family its name;
7b. biol.
In taxonomy: as adj;
Example: type genus
7c. biol.
In taxonomy: the actual specimen or individual that the description of a new species or genus is based on and from which the species usually takes its name.
Form: type specimen (in full)
8. A figure or device on either side of a coin.
9. Christian theol.
A person, object or event in the Old Testament that in some way prefigures or symbolizes someone or something that is revealed in the New Testament.

verb typed, typing

tr & intr
1. To write (words, text, etc) using a typewriter or word processor.

Thesaurus: transcribe, typewrite, copy, teletype, touch-type, hunt and peck.
Form: typewrite (sometimes)
2. To be a characteristic example or type of something; to typify.
3. medicine.biol.
To allocate to a type; to classify.
Example: typed the blood sample for cross-matching

Derivative: typing

See separate entry.

Derivative: typist

See separate entry.

Etymology: 15c: from Greek typos a blow or impression.